So many caves

This post is all about the caves!! We’ve had a few days of restful exploration back in the Exumas, starting with Rudder Cut Cay. This area is known for a few things – Musha Cay which is owned by David Copperfield and the piano & mermaid. When David Copperfield first resided in the Bahamas, people would come to his island to check things out! So to give people something else to look at, Copperfield commissioned Jason deCaires Taylor to created a sculpture of a piano and mermaid. This sculpture is about 2nm south of Musha Cay and it was just south of our anchorage at Rudder Cut Cay.

The Rudder Cut Cay anchorage was very interesting because lots of boats would arrive in the morning and early afternoon. They would check out the piano and then either leave right away or head out first thing in the morning. It was fun to watch the outgoing and incoming boats as they tried to find the perfect spot. It turned out that this spot was less then perfect. With the wind from the south east, we had lots of waves and it was pretty rough the whole time we were there. We did get the chance to snorkel the piano and mermaid and to look at some of the interesting caves in the area.

Today, Friday, March 18, we decided to head north to Great Guana Cay (the home of Black Point Settlement which we’ve visited already this season) and to anchor at Oven Rock. This southern part of Great Guana has an interior cave that (apparently) is 500ft deep. We reached our destination around 10:30am and went ashore to explore the cave. It was very cool – we have no idea how this cave was originally found but the trail to it is well established. We walked up the hillside and then down into the cave and swam in salty cave water. It was dark but still visible – a bit creepy but very interesting. After our swim in the cave, we walked out to a sound side beach that was very secluded and lovely. We packed a lunch, sat on the beach and enjoyed this spot all by ourselves!! It’s rare to have any of these ‘touristy” areas by yourself, so we enjoyed every minute.

Once we returned to the boat, we decided to move further north to get away from the rolly water we were experiencing at Oven Rock. We moved back up to Little Bay where we anchored several weeks ago. It’s very interesting to be travelling north by the same route as you travelled south. We’ve only done this once before when we went home because of Covid. Now we get the chance to leisurely explore areas we missed on the way down as we make our way slowly back north!